Temp music

Oliver Stone

I looked for a man with a death's head. Crossing Dollies, I remember we did that at the airport. That was an interesting shot. And Adagio by Samuel Barber sort of came about because we wanted a noble theme, a solemn theme, an austere one. And in the temp dub, while we were editing the film, we cut it to Barber. We asked our composer, Georges Delarue,

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Oliver Stone

French composer who worked with Francois Truffaut to follow this style of this. And he worked very hard, Georges, and worked very difficult hours to match the majesty of Barber, but it's impossible. We ended up using much of Georges' music in the movie, and we'll see that later, but this opening theme could not be matched, so we went with the adagio from the temp job and we left it into the final

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John McTiernan

While I was temp-tracking the movie, we used some Aaron Copland. I guess I have since learned the name of the pieces, Fanfare for the Common Man. It just, it just got introduced there. And Alan Silvestri later on parodied it beautifully. And we... It's playing in the background here. In the cutting room we call it Fanfare for the Common Mercenary.

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What is this music? It's so cool. This was a piece of music that John Hughes found. At the beginning, we thought we were just gonna use it for the temp track, but it played so well, we kept it.

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